An experimental music diary. The plan is to add one piece of music each day of the next year. Improvisation, collage music, songs, tampered environmental recordings or whatever strikes my fancy that day.

Song descriptions: 1. Mumbledoodledoo: Standard loopstation doodle, adding voices to the loop until stuffed. 2. Not Samba Acoustic guitar and voice improvisation. 3. Leftover Stew: Looped and layered remix mess of recordings left over the previous two days. 4. Library Noise: Samples recorded at Turku main library and mixed into an industrial mess. 5. Violince: Improvised violin solo. 6. Metal Mumblings: Four thrash metal guitar solos and mumbled vocals. 7. Trumpet Machine Music: A drone built out of layers of trumpet and traffic noise. 8. Nonsquare Dance: Rhythmic ditty for violin, electric guitar and trumpet. 9. Lummus: My first song composed with LMMS, the Linux MultiMedia Studio. What fun! 10. Scum of the Earth: Sampling 17 words from a Librivox.org reading of Arsene Lupin by Cate Barratt. 11. Calamity: 13 words from The Brogue by Saki read by Justin Brett for Librivox.org and some of LMMS's basic sounds and presets. Almost danceable! 12. Manticore: Mad pile-up of electric guitar samples. 13. Liederlichmacher: German Dada poetry and guitar improv. Doubled. 14. Mad Rappers Tea Party: Hip hop beat of sorts and sampled bits of Alice in Wonderland as read by Kara Shallenberg at Librivox.org. 15. Chain Reaction: Jittery noise built from samples of a quite relaxed improv session with Leo in 2007. 16. Fumble Pile: Ten tracks of jumbled acoustic guitar samples. 17. Reversal: Acoustic guitar solo reversed, reverbed, delayed and wah-wahed. 18. Lustprinz: Quadrilingual pile of voices sampled from the Ajukita session elsewhere on this site. 19. Etude for Piano Tuning Samples: Built out of samples of my friend Leo's piano tuning. 20. Lament: Slow and nasty lament for violin, voice and trumpet. 21. Newscast from Stupidland: Two electric guitars with an organ-like sound and two voices. 22: Birdageddon: Trumpet and violin samples mangled and splintered until they sang like birds. 23: Stations of the Cradle: Samples collected along the way to and at my mother's house. 24: Toukola: Samples from my mother's house. 25: Missed My Guitar: The thing I missed most while away on holidays was my flamenco guitar. So here's a solo with some demented yowling. 26: Guitar Solo: Like previous, but without the annoying voice. Last summer, I had three letters written on my left hand: T D P = tempo, dynamics and ... pause. I think it is finally sinking in. I can hear changes in speed and volume and the occasional pause here. 27: Two Slides: Two slide guitar solos, one for each ear. 28: Cave Dweller: A trumpet solo layered over a rumbling background of chopped guitar, trumpet and traffic samples.

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